Word: shells
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Several inanimate objects, such as a painted stick and a conch shell holy to Astarte, travel across country by magic, talking lengthily about the follies of mortals in passages that are as cute and irritating as you would expect. Satire is intended, but the jawboning has no bite. The viewpoint Robbins is searching for seems to have chewed through its leash and wandered off well before Chapter...
...reasonable alternative to forcing parents to shell out $150 to $250 per night is for Harvard to make vacant dormitory rooms available to parents for a small fee, as many colleges around the country do and as Harvard does for alumni returning for their reunions...
Until those demonstrations, there had been little protest against the hard- shell moral conservatism that has dominated Cincinnati for 30 years. The Queen City was a spawning ground for the national antiabortion movement and is the headquarters for the National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...
This Monday we were called upon to shell out $489 billion in individual taxes. The estimated total cost to taxpayers of the savings and loan bailout is now up to $500 billion, and counting...
...casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...